A reunion of people who worked on System R and its derivatives, including
SQL/DS, DB2, and R*, was held at Asilomar on May 29, 1995. This is an edited
transcript of the day's discussions, incorporating changes provided by the
speakers. It provides an informal but first-hand account of the birth of SQL,
the history of System R, and the origins of a number of other relational
systems inside and outside IBM.